[wplug] killing process that will not die

[Matthew Danish]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:18:51AM -0400, John Harrold wrote:
> so my advisor called me into his office this morning and asked me why
> mozilla wouldn't die.  we tried:
> 
> kill -9 pid
> killall mozilla-bin
> 
> which failed.  since the parent process was init, i thought killing parent
> would be a bad idea. the process wasn't a zombie, at least according to
> top, so i don't really know our attempts to kill the processes failed. can
> anyone else provide some information?

Was it in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state?  In a ps ax listing, under STAT,
is the process listed in the 'D' state?

If so, it may be a kernel bug.  Which kernel are you running?

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